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British and French leaders talk up ‘moment of reunion,’ and unveil new plan to tackle cross-Channel migration. 

Prime minister Rishi Sunak is traevlling to  meet French president Emmanuel Macron with the issue of small boat crossings on the agenda as well as the conflict in Ukraine.

The conservative-dominated Senate is rushing to meet a deadline of midnight Sunday to finalise the legislation.

Campaigners say the government's proposals would further deepen gender inequalities at workplaces in France.

Emmanuel Macron's government says a minimum pension age of 64 is needed to tackle funding deficit.

Unions are staging a general strike in France over proposed pension changes, which include raising the retirement age from 62 to 64.

French trade unions are planning massive strikes from Tuesday aiming to bring the country "to a standstill".

French president's latest tour of Africa comes at a time of ever-increasing competition from China and Russia, and growing resentment of the close economic ties between France and its former colonies, which some see as a form of continued exploitation.

After more than two tonnes of cocaine washed ashore, locals in villages along the Normandy coast have described an influx of unfamiliar people in luxury cars and 4x4s who have been scouring the sand.

The sovereign will also address the German Bundestag during a six-day tour of France and Germany next month.